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Time after time my experience:
the first implementation of any software project is garbage and should be thrown out and rewritten entirely
sometimes refactoring a larger piece of a software project is a time spent better, compared to trying to figure out why a bug that makes no sense keeps reproducing
without substantial automatic tests that cover corner cases (bonus for property tests) I am not going to try step 1 or 2
There is an urgent need for a global stance against the use of technology for oppression. Our latest blog post delves into the impact of Israeli surveillance technologies in Palestine and how localized instances of its use contribute to widespread acceptance and global adoption of such oppressive practices.
📰🔗 https://blog.torproject.org/surveillance-as-a-service-global-impact-of-israeli-defense-technologies-on-privacy-human-rights/
Bear paw shaped warrior gloves were worn by Persian warriors, possibly from Safavid dynasty around 1500s CE.
Gloves were part of armor worn by Medieval warriors to protect their fingers, hands, wrist area and part of their forearm in tough battles of the time.
National Museum of Iran, Tehran
📃 Symbolics hypertext document examiner 1985
«La mia indipendenza che è la mia forza, implica la solitudine, che è la mia debolezza».
#PierPaoloPasolini, nato oggi
「 Plan 9 was in some way a second implementation of the core concepts of Unix and C, but reconsidered for a world of networked graphical workstations. It took many of the trendy ideas of late-1980s computing, both of academic theories and of the computer industry of the time, and it reinterpreted them through the jaded eyes of two great gurus, Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (and their students) 」
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/21/successor_to_unix_plan_9/
The robe and axe that belonged to Giovanni Bugatti, who served as the official executioner for the Pope from 1796 to 1864.
Over the course of his career, he carried out 514 executions. The nickname given to Bugatti was then extended to his successors: in Rome, the term "Mastro Titta" is synonymous with the executioner.
Mastro Titta's blood-stained clothes, axes, and guillotines are on display at the Museum of Criminology at Via del Gonfalone in Rome.
In case you're not scared off by gopherspace and want a decent tutorial on using ed(1):
bell system media has such an insane level of earnestness that i truly can't resist it
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